[TH]The Best Gaming Graphics Cards for the Money: March 2008 - Overclock.net

ian209 · 03-31-08

http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/03/...ming_graphics/

Interesting... ati owns the low-mid-range end while nvidia is in the high end. I'm surprised the 3870x2 and 9800gx2 isnt listed, but the 8800GTS SLi is listed :/

TheCh3F · 03-31-08

Looks about right. For the money and performance I feel the 8800gts 512 is the best for a single card around $220. Will run every game out there and should handle just about anything coming in the future (minus Crysis 2 for the love of god)

QuickS · 03-31-08

I would have to disagree with their low end assessment. The 8800GS and 9600GT both dominate the low end market. You can get an 8800GS for as much as an HD3850 256MB and an 9600GT for as much as an HD3850 512MB would cost you.

reezin14 · 03-31-08

I think the 8800GS is a good card for the price/performance and its not listed.

ian209 · 03-31-08

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Originally Posted by QuickS

I would have to disagree with their low end assessment. The 8800GS and 9600GT both dominate the low end market. You can get an 8800GS for as much as an HD3850 256MB and an 9600GT for as much as an HD3850 512MB would cost you.

3850>8800GS

QuickS · 03-31-08

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Originally Posted by ian209

3850>8800GS

False, the 8800GS beats the HD3850 by a pretty big amount, it is even comparable to the HD3870.

Heres proof
http://sg.vr-zone.com/articles/XFX_A...ew/5573-6.html

ian209 · 03-31-08

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Originally Posted by QuickS

False, the 8800GS beats the HD3850 by a pretty big amount, it is even comparable to the HD3870.

Heres proof
http://sg.vr-zone.com/articles/XFX_A...ew/5573-6.html

thats the alpha dog edition... of course.
and synthetic, ati owns as usual.

QuickS · 03-31-08

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Originally Posted by ian209

thats the alpha dog edition... of course.
and synthetic, ati owns as usual.

The only time that the HD3850 won was by 35 points in 3dmark03 and 300 points 3dmark05, the 8800GS beats the HD3850 in 3dmark06 by nearly 700 points and triples the HD3850's score in lightsmark. So one could say that the 8800GS still wins in synthetic benchmarks too since the 8800GS outscores it overall by 400 points and over 200fps in lightsmark.

Erwin_Rommel · 03-31-08

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Originally Posted by ian209

thats the alpha dog edition... of course.
and synthetic, ati owns as usual.

lol, im so sick of biased review sites pitting a max-overclocked nvidia card against a bone-stock ATI card and calling it better....

the card is clock at 680mhz vs 550mhz standard... honestly...

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Originally Posted by QuickS

The only time that the HD3850 won was by 35 points in 3dmark03 and 300 points 3dmark05, the 8800GS beats the HD3850 in 3dmark06 by nearly 700 points and triples the HD3850's score in lightsmark. So one could say that the 8800GS still wins in synthetic benchmarks too since the 8800GS outscores it overall by 400 points and over 200fps in lightsmark.

lightsmark is an OpenGL benchmark man... no one cares about openGL.